Overall Essential Questions: ● What is digital citizenship? Digital citizenship is using technology responsibly and portraying yourself in a positive way on the internet.
● What does it mean to be a responsible and reliable online learner? Being a responsible and reliable online learner means that you manage your time well and being able to be a good student without teachers constantly checking to see if your on task. ● What does it mean to use mobile devices and technologies effectively without compromising the safety or privacy of others? It means that you use your mobile devices correctly and do not reveal information about you or another person that is personal or private by any intentional or unintentional means to someone who should not or does not have permission to learn that information. ● How can this be promoted within a school environment and extended to the whole school environment? Students can be told about the potential dangers or consequences of revealing information or presenting oneself in a negative way on the internet. Which would hopefully lead to them being better digital citizens and learning from the past mistakes of others. Global Awareness Definition: Understand the regional nuances of other places in the world. Reflect on how technical, individual, social and cultural awareness of this issue impact us as we connect globally. Discussion Questions and supporting resources: ● What are the impacts of technology use and access in other countries and cultures? With technology, people are more informed, more jobs are made and a lesiure class is created. But technology also causes pollution, obesity and the creation of powerful weapons like nuclear weapons. ● How can I connect and communicate with someone on the other side of the world? You can connect and communicate with someone from the other side of the world by emailing them or using a phone to call them.0 ● What are the geographic, political and local bandwidth concerns for the people in other parts of the world? People's bandwith connection may be affected by how open their land is in their country because some landforms may affect the bandwith signal. The bandwith can also be affected politically by the government censoring some things they don't want their people seeing. ● What are the global components of my digital citizenship? The components of your digital citizenship are how you portray yourself on the internet and what technology you have access to. ● Are there distinctions between copyright laws in different countries? Copyright laws are different between countries. ● How do national borders compare with digital boundaries on the Internet? Where you live in the world can affect how you act or what you are allowed acess to on the internet. ● What do we have to consider (time, place, cultural bridges) for effective global communication? You'll have to consider time zones and different languages in order to be able to have effective global communication with people from around the world.
Literacy- Is one literate in time zone, bridging behaviors and appropriate technologies to collaborate with people in other locations? You would have to manage time in order to speak with other people in different time zones effectively, so you would need to use something that would let the person get the message at a later time (email, voicemail on a phone, text messaging, etc.). You should also communicate with people differently depending on where they are from because the way people act in one country could or couldn't be respectful in another. Also you should be able to use appropriate technology in order to communicate properly such as sending an email at an appropriate time so the person can get it at a good time.
Fluency- Is one fluent in methods that allow the bridging of language barriers? If you and the person you are communicating with do not speak the same language, you could find a translator on the internet to help you both understand each other correctly.
● What is digital citizenship?
Digital citizenship is using technology responsibly and portraying yourself in a positive way on the internet.
● What does it mean to be a responsible and reliable online learner?
Being a responsible and reliable online learner means that you manage your time well and being able to be a good student without teachers constantly checking to see if your on task.
● What does it mean to use mobile devices and technologies effectively without compromising the safety or privacy of others?
It means that you use your mobile devices correctly and do not reveal information about you or another person that is personal or private by any intentional or unintentional means to someone who should not or does not have permission to learn that information.
● How can this be promoted within a school environment and extended to the whole school environment?
Students can be told about the potential dangers or consequences of revealing information or presenting oneself in a negative way on the internet. Which would hopefully lead to them being better digital citizens and learning from the past mistakes of others.
Global Awareness
Definition: Understand the regional nuances of other places in the world. Reflect on how technical, individual, social and cultural awareness of this issue impact us as we connect globally.
Discussion Questions and supporting resources:
● What are the impacts of technology use and access in other countries and cultures?
With technology, people are more informed, more jobs are made and a lesiure class is created. But technology also causes pollution, obesity and the creation of powerful weapons like nuclear weapons.
● How can I connect and communicate with someone on the other side of the world?
You can connect and communicate with someone from the other side of the world by emailing them or using a phone to call them.0
● What are the geographic, political and local bandwidth concerns for the people in other parts of the world?
People's bandwith connection may be affected by how open their land is in their country because some landforms may affect the bandwith signal. The bandwith can also be affected politically by the government censoring some things they don't want their people seeing.
● What are the global components of my digital citizenship?
The components of your digital citizenship are how you portray yourself on the internet and what technology you have access to.
● Are there distinctions between copyright laws in different countries?
Copyright laws are different between countries.
● How do national borders compare with digital boundaries on the Internet?
Where you live in the world can affect how you act or what you are allowed acess to on the internet.
● What do we have to consider (time, place, cultural bridges) for effective global communication?
You'll have to consider time zones and different languages in order to be able to have effective global communication with people from around the world.
Literacy- Is one literate in time zone, bridging behaviors and appropriate technologies to collaborate with people in other locations?
You would have to manage time in order to speak with other people in different time zones effectively, so you would need to use something that would let the person get the message at a later time (email, voicemail on a phone, text messaging, etc.). You should also communicate with people differently depending on where they are from because the way people act in one country could or couldn't be respectful in another. Also you should be able to use appropriate technology in order to communicate properly such as sending an email at an appropriate time so the person can get it at a good time.
Fluency- Is one fluent in methods that allow the bridging of language barriers?
If you and the person you are communicating with do not speak the same language, you could find a translator on the internet to help you both understand each other correctly.